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April 2021 Moms
BuckeyeNut05
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All Due Date Checkin w/o 11/30
BuckeyeNut05
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Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:
FTM/STM/STM+:
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out:
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:
Upcoming appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have?
Re: All Due Date Checkin w/o 11/30
FTM/STM/STM+: 3rd
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: green
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: carrot
Upcoming appointments: Waiting for OB referral and apt, prob late dec or early jan
How are you feeling?: back pain started
Rants/Raves: got my NIPT test results after finding two soft markers for ds, all good and low risk! Thank God!
Questions: back pain normal? This is my third and never had it with my last two...
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? This is 3, and I think? we are done... praying for a girl so I might have to try for a sister if it is lol
FTM/STM/STM+: 3rd time mom
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: blue
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: bowl of cereal according to the bump home page...guess they've never seen the size bowl of cereal I eat
Upcoming appointments: Nothing until after Christmas
How are you feeling?: Not bad, starting to feel like I'm getting puffy/swollen when I set at my desk too long. I got sooo swollen when pregnant with DS so I am really not looking forward to that happening again.
Rants/Raves: Not much, just going insane being cooped up at home with my husband for 9 months straight now. We are driving each other absolutely crazy but I'm not sure what I can really do about it.
Questions: Nothing right now.
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? I always thought 4 but this pregnancy during a pandemic and having to stay home every single day is really getting to me. If things haven't dramatically changed by early 2022, we might be done at 3. I can't do this again.
@babygirl20210410 so glad your NIPT results came back low risk! What a relief!
FTM/STM/STM+: 4TM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Pink! My favorite color!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Kids lunchbox
Upcoming appointments: Dec 2, 20w OB
How are you feeling?: Bored.
Rants/Raves: After saying for months we were doing our own Thanksgiving and Christmas, we get a phone call Weds saying dinner had been canceled, so don't come (we weren't going to). Thursday, we get a picture of the family at dinner, saying they were sorry we couldn't make it (wasn't this canceled??). Saturday, SO gets a text from NMIL apologizing for not inviting (or telling) us to dinner (Ummmm, now I'm lost). Sunday, we get asked by NMIL why we didn't make it (so many head scratches here), and said she hopes we will get together at Christmas. SO tells her we aren't risking anything happening to my pregnancy. She just waves him off and keeps talking. It's like they completely disregard what we're saying. So, I'm going to write a sternly worded group text telling them once and for all, my pregnancy is more important than their selfish wants (in 2020) and to back the frack off.
Questions: Feeling movement has always been a calming part of my pregnancy. Since I don't really feel her this time, i still have that PGAL anxiety. Any suggestions on relaxing and just convincing myself everything is OK?
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? 2. And for 6 years, I knew I was done. Then, SO came back into my life after 23 years, and I knew I wanted our children. So, he got one, and a shot at one more, as long as he succeeded by then end of 2020. He did, lol. BUT THAT'S IT!!! NO MORE BABIES! I'll be 44 when this baby is born. I am done!
April 30th 18 w 2 days STM
I always call the bump apps daily facts the "dumb baby fact of the day" because it seems like half of them are going backwards in size and half of them are things that come in a ton of different sizes. 😂 Baby is an artichoke this week apparently.
Friday!
Eh, a little better. I'm feeling movement like crazy and baby is responding to anyone touching my tummy it's awesome. The dog out his head there and baby kicked and it did the same to my husband, but I was talking and he couldn't tell if he felt it or not. I'm actually thinking I'm ahead of 18 weeks, but we'll see at the ultrasound. I'm not prepared at all, we have absolutely nothing for baby because we're starting over almost 9 years later, so I would gladly take a couple extra weeks at this point, ha!
The other day we were running errands and I was at the checkout with the family and noticed that I kind of had to pee. Then my throat got scratchy and I had a cough attack. I ran to get outside the store, and totally peed my pants a bit on the way out. It was mortifying. People were staring because I was coughing like crazy, I hope thats all they noticed. 😬
We have our daughter, and we're so blessed to be pregnant again after our losses....but we're going to try for another baby right after this one, because we're getting older. My plan is to have baby, work on losing weight over the summer and try for baby #3 by the end of summer again.
FTM/STM/STM+: 4TM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Green
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a croissant?
Upcoming appointments: anatomy scan tomorrow!
How are you feeling?: tired - I think it just comes with chasing after 3 kids and being cooped up in the house at this point
Rants/Raves: Rave: our small, just our family Thanksgiving went really great, and the turkey that we did in the sous vide was AMAZING! Rant: my PTO has ended, it’s Monday, and I didn’t even make it through the mountain of emails I missed today.
Questions: none
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? This is it for us, 4th and final. 😩 I was thinking only 2 after twins, because that was a lotttt, but after the 3rd I wanted a 4th almost immediately.
@thedomesticgeek ahhhh! I haven’t had that happen yet, but that is one of my worst pregnancy fears
@aisukurimsarang I am also over family making bad decisions and then guilting you for staying safe and staying home
@babygirl20210410 that’s great your NIPT came back low-risk
@juliebird6 I hope the swelling stays away for as long as possible
FTM/STM/STM+: 3rd baby!
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: blue!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a mango
Upcoming appointments: sometime mid December. Maybe the 17th
How are you feeling?: My IBS is having a party this week. This is still so strange to me - my IBS disappeared entirely when I was pregnant with our daughters! Other than that, not half bad. Just tired.
Rants/Raves: it’s a Covid rant this week. DH is a youth pastor and we had our first student test positive last week. This student came on Sunday night (so a week ago yesterday) and tested positive Wednesday morning. We’ve been meeting as a youth group (with some distancing stuff in place) for 10 weeks or so now and his is the first case we’ve had. We were going to go to my parents house on Wednesday for a thanksgiving meal with just them and my grandma, but we spoke to them and decided it would be best to stay home. My girls were devastated! But we felt it was the responsible thing to do. DH called his mom and she insisted it would be fine if we came over on Thursday as planned. So...we did. And she was frantic the entire time, asking what all she could do to lower the risk of us being there. Umm why did you tell us to come over? We just stayed outside the whole time because she was making us so uncomfortable. I’m no doctor, but I think our risk of catching anything from this kid is slim. Our medical team at church has defined exposure as being within six feet of a person for 15 minutes or more, and that was not our situation with him. I’m not that worried about our health really, but the fallout from it was stressful. Today an angry mom emailed DH (as we were waiting for the ultrasound to start to see if everything is okay with little guy’s heart - perfect timing) because she thought he didn’t handle it properly, even though he cancelled youth group for last night because of the positive case, which is really all he could do since he can’t go back in time and make that kid stay home. She thinks DH should have MADE all the students, and their families, that were there that night quarantine for 14 days. I don’t know what kind of power she thinks he has, buuuut it’s not that. I mean, yikes.
WOW that was long. I’m sorry. I evidently have a lot of feelings about this.
Questions:
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? This third baby will be the last one to grow inside of me. 😅 We have always wanted to adopt, so I’d say at least #4 is on the horizon some time down the road. We love our house, but we know we can’t fit 4 kids in here. We’ll let baby boy grow up some and at some point we will find a bigger house and then seriously consider adoption!
@BuckeyeNut05 good luck with the anatomy scan!
@thedomesticgeek that really sucks! I'm sure people were looking at you because of your cough and nothing else. That is really terrible though!
@aisukurimsarang oh my god, that is such an annoying story!! People can be so weird.
@juliebird6 I think there will be a big improvement in how things are going by 2022. Hang in there!
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: April 29 / 18+5
FTM/STM/STM+: STM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Finding Out - hopefully at the anatomy scan!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: an artichoke
Upcoming appointments: Anatomy scan 12/7 - can't wait! It sucks that I have to go alone, and I'm worried that baby won't cooperate and I won't get to find out the sex. I know that's not the point of the scan but...
How are you feeling?: Alright - the nausea keeps coming back and I think it has to do with being dehydrated? I have no idea.
Rants/Raves: Thank god Black Friday is over. It was a rough weekend in the world of retail. Oh, and a rave: there's this goofy toy that DD wants for Christmas that she's been talking about for months. Well, after this weekend, they all disappeared from the stores around us and then the prices online were getting jacked up! We're talking a $20-$30 toy that was now getting sold for $45, $65, and even more. DH found one at a Walmart about an hour away for the original price of $20 and drove an hour away to grab it last night. This is the first time we didn't think we'd be able to find a toy she really wants so I'm glad it worked out!
Questions:
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? Two
FTM/STM/STM+: STM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: finding out at anatomy scan
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: zesty zucchini? I don't even know what that is or if it is different from a regular zucchini. @juliebird6 lol at the cereal comment. Same.
Upcoming appointments: anatomy scan is 12/7!
How are you feeling?: pretty good
Rants/Raves: We had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving at home. I was sad not to see family but not sad to miss the 6 hour drive each way.
Questions: do people with more than one kid who are close in age have convertible car seats for each kid in each car? I'm guessing the answer is yes but it just seems crazy to buy four seats for two kids.
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? I think 2
@bblair24 Sorry about the covid drama. If people are super concerned about their health or their kids health, they should not be sending their kids to youth group. They should know there is no way anyone can guarantee a covid-free environment right now, even if you take steps to minimize risks.
@thedomesticgeek lol I am definitely getting to the point where peeing a little is going to happen when I cough or sneeze. Pregnancy is so glamorous.
@riff323 We have our anatomy scan the same day! I am bummed my husband can't come too and also super excited to find out the sex. It didn't even occur to me that they might not be able to tell. We didn't find out the sex with our first so this is new.
@kadeephd yay for anatomy scans! I had the same fear last time - I think it's relatively rare in today's day and age, but if your baby just won't move the right way, it's possible they won't be able to get a good look at the genitals. I was also convinced last time that they were wrong so I suppose it doesn't matter either way!
@juliebird6 here it is: https://youtu.be/C-St1REyjxM Apparently many children will be waking up on Christmas morning to pooping flamingos...
FTM/STM/STM+: FTM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Pink
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a mango or a hotdog
Upcoming appointments: anatomy scan on Monday
How are you feeling?: having some RLP, back pain and still pretty tired, but mostly ok.
Rants/Raves: This week is really busy at work, but thankfully this is my last week on this service EVER and it will be my last weekend call, so that is definitely a rave.
Questions: For all the STM+, how much did your hospital bill end up being, ballpark? I have pretty good insurance with a PPO, and I am just trying to get an idea of what the damage might be.
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? We are hoping for 2
@riff323 GL at your anatomy scan! hopefully LO cooperates!
@thedomesticgeek hopefully they were just staring because they were scared you were going to give them COVID and they didn't even notice lol
FTM/STM/STM+: STM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: having a boy
Upcoming appointments: OB Thursday!
How are you feeling?: Like crap. I'm anemic and feeling it - short of breath, exhausted but with insomnia. This pregnancy has just been much more physically difficult than my first.
Rants/Raves: My husband has been giving me a nightly massage to help me fall asleep. It's really sweet!
Questions: Is anyone else anemic? I know it's common in pregnancy but I always wonder how much of an impact my IBD has
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? We were hoping for 3, but I have to see exactly how tough this pregnancy is / the newborn stage is with a toddler at home 24/7.
@riff323 my friend is looming everywhere for that thing!
FTM/STM/STM+: 4tm
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: blue
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: I need to check!
Upcoming appointments: tomorrow my anatomy scan and 20 week appt.
How are you feeling?: headaches are still bad but other than that, I feel good. I think I have gained a lot of weight but am going to try and be kind to myself tomorrow when they weigh me.
Rants/Raves: I’m struggling with a male at work who wants everyone to know he is an executive. He has been very rude to me and today I called him out on it and he didn’t have the decency to return my phone call. It is a really hard scenario because he is technically higher up than me because he is C level, but I continue to lose respect for him. It’s a mess but luckily I report to my CEO and not him.
Questions:
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? We were pretty set with three but here I am now! Excited to welcome our final baby!
ETA: that bill was just for my care, not DD's - she was listed on DH's plan.
ETA: my son was on my husband's plan and we didn't get a bill for his care at the hospital.
It's really going to depend on your insurance. Some people pay almost nothing.
DS2, we had better coverage and less complications with it. I also had met the deductible for the year because I had to have an appendectomy at 22 weeks pregnant, so it was less than 1500 I think?
FTM/STM/STM+: 3rd time
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: pink
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a banana (but I guess one of those extra small ones)
Upcoming appointments: Well I have another ultrasound and appointment with the regular OB on Dec 24, but just got a call this morning that they do want me to see the specialist for a more in depth ultrasound so I’m now waiting for them to call me and schedule it.
How are you feeling?: physically, mostly okay for being 20 weeks pregnant. But mentally and emotionally I just feel exhausted by pregnancy, life and our living situation, and this entire year.
Rants/Raves: I don’t even know. I’m just bummed I guess that they called me this morning to say after they’ve had extra people review last weeks ultrasound and my pregnancy histories they want to go ahead and diagnose IUGR and have me start seeing a specialist too that’s located in Chicago because of her size.
Questions:
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? I’m like 101.5% sure this is good for DH! But we’ve always said down the line when our biological children are older we want to look into being foster parents and possibly adopting. I’m thinking this is my last pregnancy though.
@theletlers I'm sorry it wasn't news you wanted to hear. Hang in there, mama! You're doing great
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 4/21, 21 weeks
FTM/STM/STM+: TTM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Green
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: lol no idea
Upcoming appointments: Supposed to have my anatomy scan tmrw but I had a cold (that started 2.5 weeks ago) and told them about it last week during my intake and I still have a tiny runny nose (literally might just be pregnancy rhinitis, I blow my nose 2-3x/day) so they're making me get a covid test "because I've been traveling" even though I have been in the state for 2 weeks. It is no longer at all easy to get a covid test and this has been super frustrating and a hassle, especially because they should have told me this last week so I could schedule it and keep my appointment tmrw instead of calling me Monday night and telling me this almost a week after they knew I had a cold. I tried calling another office to see if I could get in somewhere else (I'd be fine still getting my covid test and what-not, not trying to avoid that or get in any earlier) but I'd miss the window for the anatomy scan waiting for my records to be sent to anywhere new. The incompetence/inability to communicate for this first appointment at the new place is really starting this off on a horrible note for me.
How are you feeling?: Feeling good
Rants/Raves: See above
Questions: none for now
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? Likely just 3 but open to 4. Feeling very much like this will be my last pregnancy, though, and very at peace with that if it's the case.
I'll do a separate post to respond to others so I don't make this too long...
@aisukurimsarang Wow, you wrote out everything that happened for your Thanksgiving communications really well and I am just so confused by "NMIL"
@thedomesticgeek lol I'm on pregnancy #3 and just had my first cough/pee earlier this week. Not a milestone I was thrilled to hit.
@BuckeyeNut05 sous vide turkey sounds amazinggggg! We spatchcocked the turkey this year and it was great.
@bblair24 umm shouldn't the health department be the one to determine who has to quarantine or not. Definitely not up to your husband.
@riff323 now I'm super curious what toy this is lol
@kadeephd oh man with my first when we were team green they had us shield our eyes so many different times like we'd be able to tell and then with my second she had to try forever to find out the sex b/c of the positioning (we're team green but they still need to know for medical purposes for some reason) and they finallllly got it. Also, we will have a bajillion car seats. We only have one car right now but we do have 4 car seats from before we sold DH's car. My mom and sister will likely have car seats plus MIL eventually (although right now they are high risk due to their age so we aren't seeing them).
...will finish responding later. Trying to catch up but nap time beckons for the 18mo.
@theletlers I'm sorry about the IUGR diagnosis
@kvh22 She's like a MIL only NOT because we aren't married, so NotMIL or NMIL (NSIL1 NSIL2)
@kadeephd you know what - @aisukurimsarang reminded me that we did the same with only 1 car seat in DH's car but it became a hassle for about a month b/c DD2 needed a convertible and a second convertible didn't fit in DH's mustang. I bought a 4th convertible and we moved it across the country with us but we hadn't used it. You have a while if you're going to be using the bucket/infant car seat for a while. DD2 was small so we didn't need to move her to a convertible until 15months. We put in her in the convertible in my car at 13 months or so (so 2 convertibles in mine) and kept doing 1 convertible + the bucket in DH's. I will say logistically, she was 10 months when covid hit so she wasn't going to daycare while we were dealing with a heavier baby in the bucket. We weren't carrying her in the bucket at 15 months.
I will say there were a couple days that DH forgot I had to go somewhere and he’d take the “family” car to work. So I’d have to tell him to hurry and bring it home so I could leave with the children 😂
FTM/STM/STM+: STM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: pink
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a banana I think. (Also lol at the cereal bowl @juliebird6, we have the extra tall bowls for cereal too)
Upcoming appointments: tomorrow for echo
How are you feeling?: Better than I expected, but also huge. I already feel like I’m waddling, it’s almost impossible to bend all the way, and I make all kinds of groaning noises if I have to get down on the floor/get back up. And yes, if I sneeze and I don’t prepare myself properly I’m already peeing a little too. Fun stuff. I’m also still super tired, but I’m down to napping 3-5 days a week instead of every day.
Rants/Raves: DS has had a rough month and just the past two days he’s been soooo much better. It’s sad how much my day/happiness revolves around how his is, but as a SAHM he’s 100% a factor in how I’m doing. It was also nice that DH took last week off to help handle all of the tantrums. I think I’m more recharged than I’ve been in a while.
Questions: none that I can think of
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? 2. DH needs a vasectomy while he’s on paternity leave.
FTM/STM/STM+: 4tm
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: blue
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: fist is the size of an m&m
Upcoming appointments: anatomy scan with MFM and regular appt both next week!
How are you feeling?: I always get this awful soreness right under my ribs/upper abdomen and it's officially started. Heartburn has also started. Overall feeling good though!
Rants/Raves: getting more excited about having a 4th boy after buying a few things for him on black Friday!
Questions:
GTKY: How many kids do you think you want / are you hoping to have? Pretty sure this will be it at 4. My mind feels done, my hubby is def done, but my heart longs for a daughter. Hoping once baby boy is here I'll feel 100% content though.
@kadeephd we have one carseat per kid for my car only. In fact my hubby's car is not even big enough to fit all of us once this baby is born lol. I do stay home with the kids though and very rarely would we both need to drive separately with kids. If we do we just move a carseat.
@theletlers I'm sorry for your stressful situation, but it sounds like you're in good hands so hang in there!
@forevertired I hear you on how your LO's behavior dictates your mood. I'm in the same boat. It's not easy being a SAHM! I'm glad you got a chance to recharge.